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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maler Show on
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  Speaker 1: Staying around it, It's hard to do when you're on skates.
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  Speaker 3: I think I'm pulled out to the days. Well, come in.
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  Speaker 1: The begainning of another night of the Ben Mahlor Show.
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  Speaker 1: So our lead this hour, the rare and appropriate, rare
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  Speaker 1: and appropriate Mala monologue about hockey. Now we have the
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  Speaker 1: Mallard meet and greet in Vancouver. It was great to
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  Speaker 1: meet many of our fine Canadian lads that listen to
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  Speaker 1: the show, and several of them are like, well, you
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  Speaker 1: need to talk more hockey. And I said, well, when
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  Speaker 1: I talk hockey, you complain that I talk hockey because
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  Speaker 1: you say, well, you know, not a hockey guy.
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  Speaker 3: And then if I don't talk about hockey, you.
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  Speaker 1: Bitch about that, and you say, well you should really
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  Speaker 1: talk you know, you should talk about hockey. So this
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  Speaker 1: is a trial run. We'll see how it does. If
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  Speaker 1: it does well, maybe we'll do more of it. But
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  Speaker 1: our lead this hour, that's right, the rare and appropriate
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  Speaker 1: Malard monologue will start out at the capital city of
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  Speaker 1: the Canadian province of Alberta.
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  Speaker 3: Oh God, Edmunds.
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  Speaker 1: There's been a generation since a team from that country.
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  Speaker 1: One Lord's Stanley Cup and and there you go. The
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  Speaker 1: curtain went up to dab the twenty twenty five Stanley
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  Speaker 1: Cup final rematch style the reigning champions, the Florida Panthers,
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  Speaker 1: who are in this thing every single year now scanning
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  Speaker 1: against the chosen one. Connor McDavid and the Oilers there
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  Speaker 1: for Lord Stanley's Cup. Game one full of fun unless
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  Speaker 1: it was well that it was actually not a bad game.
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  Speaker 1: I did watch it. A couple of Homeboys friends of
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  Speaker 1: the show there, Kenny Albert and Eddie Oldchuck on the
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  Speaker 1: turner call.
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  Speaker 3: And maybe he did not watch it. I don't know
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  Speaker 3: what else you were doing.
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  Speaker 1: There's some crappy baseball games on Leon Drycidle, I've heard
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  Speaker 1: of him. He was not very effective last year in
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  Speaker 1: the Stanley cupon he was hurt, all right, well, Leon
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  Speaker 1: drystyle lighting the lamp. He let the lamp put the
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  Speaker 1: BESTKT in the basket power play game winner in the
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  Speaker 1: final seconds of the first overtime, which turned out to
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  Speaker 1: be the only overtime and the much maligned the week Link.
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  Speaker 1: You are the week Link, Stuart Skinner was not the
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  Speaker 1: week Link you at twenty nine saves and Edmonton down
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  Speaker 1: by multiple goals, and generally speaking, when you're down by
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  Speaker 1: multiple goals, you're not normally coming back to win that game.
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  Speaker 3: Against the quality upon it.
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  Speaker 1: But that's why they play the games a multi goal deficit.
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  Speaker 3: Edmonton came back, so they win.
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  Speaker 1: The game four to three in game one, and game
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  Speaker 1: two will be on Friday night. We are not in
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  Speaker 1: the watch tower. We are not in the watch tower
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  Speaker 1: on Friday night. That there'll be somebody else in the chair,
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  Speaker 1: so we don't need to worry about that. And then
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  Speaker 1: that game in Edmonton, then they'll go back to the
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  Speaker 1: Sunshine State for games three and four. And you know
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  Speaker 1: the drill, if you've listened to the show at all,
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  Speaker 1: The better story is where ding ding ding ding.
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  Speaker 3: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: The better story is in the losing locker room. And
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  Speaker 1: so that is where we will again and that is
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  Speaker 1: what we will discuss. So the question this in depth
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  Speaker 1: Malard monologue about the puck, what stands out from the flopperoo,
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  Speaker 1: the Matthew Chuck Panthers flopping in game number one, blowing
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  Speaker 1: a two goal lead. So I've got Uncle Mo, red
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  Speaker 1: bull and politicking, and we will combine all of these
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  Speaker 1: things together and we are going to take a drive
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  Speaker 1: in the zamboni. Yeah, joy ride in the zamboni. So
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  Speaker 1: number I said, numb burn. So the Panthers, to quote
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  Speaker 1: one of the great philosophers of our time and one
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  Speaker 1: of the most important orders and really oracles as well
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  Speaker 1: of society. The Panthers sucked at a time you cannot suck,
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  Speaker 1: despite having a lead at the end of the first
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  Speaker 1: period and at the end of the second period they
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  Speaker 1: had been thirty one in zho in playoff games under
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  Speaker 1: their current head coach Paul Maurice, going back the last
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  Speaker 1: couple of years.
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  Speaker 3: They couldn't lose in that situation. They lost that game.
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  Speaker 1: They blew the two goal there three to one, proving
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  Speaker 1: yet again that Uncle Mo lives in Brooklyn, but not
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  Speaker 1: in hockey games.
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  Speaker 3: There is no such thing as Uncle Mo.
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  Speaker 1: They had all the momentum, they had all the more
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  Speaker 1: mad of you dumb idiot fans say, I had all
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  Speaker 1: the more madam, Oh my god, Why would they give
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  Speaker 1: that up? Why would the Florida Panthers up three to one,
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  Speaker 1: give back the momentum. Shouldn't you hold on to the momentum?
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  Speaker 1: And why did you give it up? Did Edmonton steal it?
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  Speaker 3: That's a crime. Arrest them. They stole it. So they
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  Speaker 3: Florida did not grow the lead.
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  Speaker 1: And even I a rather novice hockey observer who was
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  Speaker 1: forced to cover hockey in my younger days many many
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  Speaker 1: years back, but the defensive zone breakdowns, and I'll use
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  Speaker 1: an analogy here that I think is more relatable to
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  Speaker 1: the common non hockey fan. Think of the Florida Panthers
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  Speaker 1: for much of this game like a walrus lying around
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  Speaker 1: and farting on the beach. That's what they did most
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  Speaker 1: of the game. They really only competed in the second period.
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  Speaker 1: It was a domination situation.
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  Speaker 3: The other way. Outside of that.
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  Speaker 1: Outside of that second period, when Matthew Kachuck's team out
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  Speaker 1: shot outshot, the Florida Panthers outshot Edmonton by I think
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  Speaker 1: it was nine, the rest of the game was thirty
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  Speaker 1: eight to fifteen shots on goal in favor of the Oilers.
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  Speaker 3: So you were in.
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  Speaker 1: The dreaded zombie mode, disheveled and they looked lost.
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  Speaker 3: And I was texting one of the few friends I
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  Speaker 3: have that.
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  Speaker 1: Likes hockey, not Eddie, by the way, and there were
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  Speaker 1: like two or three times in overtime early on, whereas well,
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  Speaker 1: that should ended the game, and that should ended the game,
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  Speaker 1: and it's general in most sports. I think you'd agree
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  Speaker 1: with my point. I'm about to make a brilliant point.
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  Speaker 1: I'd like to alerd all the affiliates. We're about to
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  Speaker 1: make a rare, brilliant point that when you're watching a game,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter what This happens to be a hockey game,
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  Speaker 1: but if you're watching a basketball game, football, whatever, in baseball,
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  Speaker 1: when you're watching a game, you can tell which.
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  Speaker 3: Team wants it a little more, the more.
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  Speaker 1: Aggressive team and the team that's more locked in, And
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  Speaker 1: nine out of ten times that team is going to
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  Speaker 1: go home with a nice w. It doesn't happen all
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  Speaker 1: the time, but nine out of ten times the team
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  Speaker 1: that just has a little more in there. Now, how
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  Speaker 1: you could be off your bio rhythms off in a
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  Speaker 1: Stanley Cup final game, I don't get that.
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  Speaker 3: I don't understand it happens.
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  Speaker 1: There's human beings involved that eventually there won't be if
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  Speaker 1: you get enough time, they'll just be robots playing robots.
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  Speaker 3: And then you won't have to worry about that.
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  Speaker 1: But the Panthers defense in the third period, it's like
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  Speaker 1: they had they decided, we're gonna go down to Dairy Queen,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna get some some cones and we'll just let
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  Speaker 1: them melt, and there you go. And I just completely
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  Speaker 1: forgot the rudimentary elements, like even I know you need
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  Speaker 1: to clear the puck, Yeah, I gotta it. Can't clear
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  Speaker 1: the puck, you can't win the game. Now, Patrito are
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  Speaker 1: in depth hockey coverage. So what does Florida now need
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  Speaker 1: to do to get back? They down won nothing. They
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  Speaker 1: it's not the end of the world here, the big deal.
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  Speaker 1: Hockey teams come back from that all the time. And
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  Speaker 1: the series really hasn't started because the game was in Edmonton.
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  Speaker 1: The home team won, so as you know, the rule
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  Speaker 1: in all these series is the series doesn't start until
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  Speaker 1: the home team loses and the road team wins and
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff. So the first thing I would do
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  Speaker 1: is I would go to go down to Walmart and
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  Speaker 1: I would buy a ca of Red Bull and then
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  Speaker 1: I'd buy some no does some caffeine supplements. Combine those
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  Speaker 1: things together here in a near lethal dose. Big advantage,
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  Speaker 1: big advantage of you if you're going into this seriously.
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  Speaker 3: What's the advantage. The key advantage was that.
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  Speaker 1: Carolina, Carolina, that Florida has a better goaltender than Edmonton.
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  Speaker 3: That's Sergei Vebrovski is better than Stuart.
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  Speaker 1: Skinner and all that stuff, and that that's the advantage.
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  Speaker 1: And the stars are on the side of Edmonton, all right.
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  Speaker 1: We talked about this in a previous episode of the show.
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  Speaker 1: Another rare and appropriate hockey reference with the chosen one,
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  Speaker 1: Connor McDavid. And this is his opportunity to check that
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  Speaker 1: box that you have to check and to be part
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  Speaker 1: of it and lead the team to a win and
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff.
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  Speaker 5: And but the.
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  Speaker 1: Advantage for Florida is, hey, they got a better goalton
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  Speaker 1: that the kryptonite of Edmonton is they got Stewart Skinner.
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  Speaker 3: That's your game, right, So so how do you take
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  Speaker 3: advantage that?
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  Speaker 5: Now?
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  Speaker 3: You know? What do I know?
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  Speaker 1: I just I do the open I shore. We rarely
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  Speaker 1: talk about hockey. I normally talk about the plague more
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  Speaker 1: than hockey. But Stuart Skinner a lightning rod of a
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  Speaker 1: player who had been playing well recently, and in this
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  Speaker 1: game he faced thirty two shots and stopped twenty nine
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  Speaker 1: of them. And that doesn't even tell So, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: if the fans were chanting his name whatever, they're all
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  Speaker 1: wearing Oilers jerseys, find what you expect that. But I
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  Speaker 1: would argue for most of the late stages of this game,
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  Speaker 1: the third period and overtime, which I believe the math
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  Speaker 1: on that like thirty forty minutes or something.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's forty minutes almost forty minutes.
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  Speaker 1: The Panthers against the Oilers. The Oilers out shot the
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  Speaker 1: Panthers twenty four to eight.
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  Speaker 3: So what's going on?
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  Speaker 2: You know?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Skinner, he doesn't have to make many saves.
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  Speaker 1: If you take eight shots the third period in an
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  Speaker 1: overtime combined, and then you're helping out, I mean, that's
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  Speaker 1: what you want. That's exactly what you would want. I
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  Speaker 1: would assume if you're the team from Edmonton, you're like,
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  Speaker 1: all right, our goaltender blows, so as long as they
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  Speaker 1: don't shoot the pucket him, he doesn't really suck.
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  Speaker 3: Because that's they can't score.
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  Speaker 1: To my knowledge, and again, you know, rudimentary hockey knowledge,
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  Speaker 1: it's very difficult to score. Very difficult to score if
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  Speaker 1: you do not put the puck on the net. Very
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  Speaker 1: difficult to do that. All right, Now, final point, we
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  Speaker 1: move away from hockey to a developing storyline in pro
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  Speaker 1: bouncy ball. The Saint John's coach, Rick Patino. He's back
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  Speaker 1: in the Sporting News. Now there is an opening in Gotham.
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  Speaker 1: There is an opening in Gotham. Rick Patino was asked
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  Speaker 1: about that job, and Patino said recently that he would
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  Speaker 1: quote absolutely not take the Knickerbocker head coaching job.
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  Speaker 3: Do you believe him? So I'm gonna now quote Rick Patino.
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  Speaker 1: He says he would absolutely not take the Acerbocker head
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  Speaker 1: coaching job. And I'm going to use the quote absolutely not.
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  Speaker 3: I don't believe him. Patino is in his early.
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  Speaker 1: Seventy seventy two, right, so he's past retirement age, and
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  Speaker 1: he knows.
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  Speaker 3: He's unlikely to get the call. So you say, oh,
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  Speaker 3: I'm not interested. Absolutely not.
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  Speaker 1: You say that, however, you and I both know he
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  Speaker 1: would take the job.
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  Speaker 3: In a heartbeat.
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  Speaker 1: He would absolutely take the job. Man, would he loved
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  Speaker 1: that job. He's aroused just thinking about it. Now Patino
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  Speaker 1: has to say no publicly because he knows it's a
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  Speaker 1: long shot. They won't really talk to him, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: if they do, it's going to be kind of a
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  Speaker 1: courtesy thing and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 3: And you got to be loyal to your college job.
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  Speaker 1: And so privately, though so publicly, you say no, absolutely not.
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  Speaker 1: I've got a great job. I'm not going anywhere else. Privately,
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  Speaker 1: what is going on behind the scenes? What do you
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  Speaker 1: think is going on? Like Patino's a showman, he knows
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  Speaker 1: how to play the media. He's been doing it for
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  Speaker 1: about my entire life, maybe longer than that. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: not saying that Patino's out there like openly begging for
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  Speaker 1: the job with the Knicks.
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  Speaker 3: I don't buy that.
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  Speaker 1: However, would you be shocked because I wouldn't be shocked
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  Speaker 1: if he's quietly politicking through intermediaries and back channels and
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  Speaker 1: was like, hey, you know I had this job at
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  Speaker 1: one point. We know Patino's got an ego the size
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  Speaker 1: of the Empire State Building, and you think he doesn't
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  Speaker 1: dream of walking back in as a pro coach to
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  Speaker 1: the Garden and being the guy that dots the eye
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  Speaker 1: in championship and the Knickerbockers win, the crowd goes wild,
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  Speaker 1: the parade through the canyon, the heroes, you fade to black.
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  Speaker 3: That's it. Boom documentary over.
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  Speaker 1: And he has said he loved coaching there. He called
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  Speaker 1: the vibration electric when he coached the Knicks. And he
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  Speaker 1: does know a thing or two because he's seen a
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  Speaker 1: thing or two over the years and coached the Knicks
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  Speaker 1: in the in the eighties, way back in the eighties,
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  Speaker 1: before social media, when people actually went to games and
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  Speaker 1: watched the and didn't hold their phone up like the
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  Speaker 1: Statue of.
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  Speaker 3: Liberty to record everything on videos that no one watches.
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  Speaker 1: And in Kentucky and Louisville and the Celtics and the
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  Speaker 1: scandal here late night restaurant rendezvous over there, come back, prostitutes,
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  Speaker 1: the whole deal, A little bit of this, a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of that, and.
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  Speaker 3: You mix it all together. Patino's got all of it.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome.
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  Speaker 6: In the beginning of another hour of The Ben Mahlor Show,
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  Speaker 6: we are in the air everywhere, besties, as we are
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  Speaker 6: at the speed of audio sound Coast the Coast, Quorter,
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  Speaker 6: Moter and beyond on the vast and groovy powerful microphones
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  Speaker 6: havesr am monating live from the back as we scratch
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  Speaker 6: my back with a hacksaw, as Mike Lang used to
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  Speaker 6: sit back in the day from the Fox Sports radio studios.
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  Speaker 3: As approved by Spacoli.
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  Speaker 1: Who is on the Oilers bandwagon. He sent out a
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  Speaker 1: photo saw that earlier and this portion of the Ben
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  Speaker 1: lead this hour is from the Big Apple.
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  Speaker 3: The Big Apple.
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  Speaker 1: The only big apple I've ever seen when I went
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  Speaker 1: to New York is that a Mets game. They have
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  Speaker 1: a big apple out in the outfield.
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  Speaker 3: That's it. I've never seen a big apple anywhere else.
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  Speaker 1: So follow up to the follow up, follow up to
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  Speaker 1: the follow up coach Tom Thibodeau escorted out of the building,
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  Speaker 1: out of the building in Gotham.
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  Speaker 3: Have you heard the latest on this? Perhaps not?
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  Speaker 1: Well, you can't just get rid of a coach and
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  Speaker 1: then just have the story go away. The story's got legs.
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  Speaker 1: So what is the latest? The scuttle butt as the
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  Speaker 1: streets around midtown Manhattan are talking and we are told
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  Speaker 1: a handful of Knickerbocker players were not happy. They were unhappy.
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  Speaker 1: What were they unhappy about? Because everyone's got to be happy.
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  Speaker 1: You can't have anyone who's not happy. So the Knicks
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  Speaker 1: players were unhappy with the presence of an assistant coach.
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  Speaker 1: But not just any assistant coach. That's right, Rick Brunson.
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  Speaker 1: The plot thickens according to something called Oops Wire. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what that is, but they say that multiple
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  Speaker 1: Knicks players have been unhappy with the presidence of assistant
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  Speaker 1: coach Rick Brunson. If that name sounds familiar, that is
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  Speaker 1: the forefather of Jalen Brunson. That's the Papa Bear. That's
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  Speaker 1: the Papa Bear. Now the problem. The problem is that
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  Speaker 1: Rick has had too big a say in the goings.
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  Speaker 3: On with the Knickerbockers. Behind the scenes.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so that's the report, simple players upset Rick Brunson,
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  Speaker 1: the daddy of Jalen Brunson, has become too influential with
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  Speaker 1: the New York basketball team. So let us discuss the
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: question for the esteem panel, which you find.
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: Yourself part of? How am I part of a panel?
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: You are? You just go with it. You're part of
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: the esteem panel.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: So question multiple nick players unhappy, They're unhappy with Jalen
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: Brunson's daddy that he has such a strong presence on
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: the coaching staff. What does this signify to you? So
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: I've got madmen, zip code, and workshop, and we will
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: combine all of these things together and we're going to
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: have some chills and thrills and try not to stumble
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: and bumble like the Knickerbockers did in those games. So
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: my first thought, A, there's one word that sums this up.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: It is prevalent.
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: It is a disease.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: It is in all of our professional sports, all of them,
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: the disease. It is a one word. It's starts with
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: an N. In fact, capital end, nepotism, nepotism, capital end.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: This is El classico, the NBA family business. It's a
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: coaching version of lebron and he's running.
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: The Lakers a GM by proxy.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: Ands Bronnie who has no business being in the NBA,
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: but his daddy is the star.
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: Of the Lakers.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: Soda Browny James draft in the second round and then
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: went out there and embarrassed himself. So they're catering to
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: one guy, right, the Knicks aren't Jalen Brunson. Well, he
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: gave them a hometown discount. We okay, good, congratulations. Now
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: we like the player. We like Jalen Brunson, solid ballplayer.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: This just does not feel right though. The whole thing
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: doesn't feel right, and it's like, well, you're doing you know, because.
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: It's in the news. Well, I didn't feel right before.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: In fact, the talk was that the reason that Rick
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: Brunson was hired by the Knicks was because they were
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: trying to woo Jalen Brunson the whole thing. So it's
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: just not a professional setup in the real world, I
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: would say.
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: And then every time I.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: Bring this up, well, everyone every business you know, how
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: many how many lawyers I deal with? Their father was
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: a lawyer and they get hired at the law firm
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: or a doctor and all, okay, Well, I know in
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: radio it usually doesn't work that way. It just doesn't,
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: which it did, but that does not work that way.
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: Now.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: The second you start building your organization.
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: Around family ties.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: And family ties instead of just based on performance, it
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: doesn't immediately wound it. It doesn't. But there's cracks, there's
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: little like fissures, you know, you know, like the earthquakes.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: They say, well, when the big earthquake happens, there's usually
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: some four shocks leading up to that. It's internal politics.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: And this is not why New York lost to Indian.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: The fact that Jalen Brunson's daddy was on the bench
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: is not why they lost. However, it is a symptom
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: to a bigger condition, like bigger problem. It sounds like
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: the guys in the locker room are sick of the
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: dad being right there, and they feel like there's only
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: one set of rules for Jalen Brunson and then for
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: the rest of the team, and you know, it's outside
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: of the inner circle. That's what it sounds like. The
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: picture that is being painted, which is a term that
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: I think we're leading down a road that leads to
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: a dead end street, and the dead end street is
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: conflict there's one one street, this is conflict. Then there's
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: another of and then the third street is interest, and
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: so they're all connected. Conflict of interest just a little
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: too cozy, just a little too cozy. And the argument is,
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: how can you hold the guy accountable when his father
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: is literally standing right there, right right.
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: Right over over there, that's right there.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: And this is not the first time Rick Brunson has
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: been accused of having.
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: Too much influence. So when you take a.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: Couple of steps back, it's like a mad Men situation, right,
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: there's an inner circle within an inner circle. It's all
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: kind of like it like weird thing, this weird castle role.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: And you got some players who feel like they're being
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: iced out a little bit, and you know it's you
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: got issues, all right, but that's their problem. You want
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: to bet that whoever gets the head coaching job of
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: the Knicks retains Rick Brunson as an assistant coach. You
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: can't get rid of him. He's like their mascot. You
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: cannot get rid of Rick Brunson. He's gonna have a
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: job all right now. Page two to the finals. Can
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: you feel the buzz in the air, Can you feel
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: the excitement for the NBA Finals twenty twenty five. No,
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: that's actually a mosquito. You just got bitten by a mosquito.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: That's what you felt. You got bitten by a mosquito.
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: Now it is on not like Donkey Kong.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: No, no, no, it's like a ripoff version of Donkey Kong
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: in sleepy Oklahoma City.
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: The Thunder will rain down.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: Thunder and Pacers the least attractive NBA Finals matchup in
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: the history of the NBA Finals. There has never been
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: a worst matchup in terms of star power, in terms
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: of national.
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: Appeal than this. This is it right here. Your congratulations.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: So the commissioner, Adam Silver, half man, half alien, half
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: lizard person. Adam Silver asked that he was asked in
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: an interview on FS one. He was asked about two
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: small market teams meeting in the finals and that this
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: is not a good product. You're selling an inferior product.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: And I'm paraphrasing some of this. So what did Adam
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: Silver say? He responded by saying, quote, this is a
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: quote from Adam Silver.
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: If we were going into a Super Bowl and it.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: Was Packers versus Steelers, you guys would celebrate that close.
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: Quote. Does that comp work for you? Does it work
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: for you?
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: So my answer is CCS classic corporate spin mixed with
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: what about ism?
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: What about this? What about that?
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: Okay, So, does he understand that he's not the NFL commissioner?
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: Does he realize that it's he's not in charge of
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: the Packers and the Steelers, He's in charge of the
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: Thunder and the Pacers. So you're comparing the Thunder and
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: the Pacers, two NBA teams that are basically invisible unless
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: you happen to be inside their zip code.
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: If you're outside the zip code, forget about it, to.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: The pets Burg Steelers, the Insers, and the Green Bay Packers,
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: teams that have national followings because band wagner fans jump
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: on band wagons and those teams have won and so
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: they have.
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: Fans all over the country.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: The Green Bay Packers are a team where and when
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: they need more money, they just put more stock up
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: and then people pay money and they get a stock
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: option in the Green Bay Packers and that's it. But
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: these are two of the most iconic brands that have
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: a national following historically rich franchises in NFL history.
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: And that is your analogy.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: That's how you're going to defend the thunder and the
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: pacers is you're going to compare these two. So what
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: you should have done will be like, okay, so if
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: we had a Super Bowl with the Carolina Panthers and
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: they were taking on Jacksonville, would you guys celebrate that?
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: Now? Of course not?
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: Of course wouldn't celebrate that. I mean, his his work.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: How stupid are you?
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: Seriously?
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: The Commission of the NBA a billion dollar business. I
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: have been by your headquarters there in Manhattan. You're a
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: big skyscraper and all that. That's what you came up with.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: That's what you came up with. Okay, interesting, that's odd,
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: all right? So I would think that you're trying to
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: insult what little intelligence your customers have by acting like
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: the finals or you know, some kind of cultural moment
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: that people want to watch. And you know, no matter
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: what and all that stuff, the numbers will ultimately tell
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: the story. You are going to get absolutely waxed in
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: the television ratice.
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: And this is a TV show, Make no mistake.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: As much as we talk about this, that and the
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: other thing, when you get down to it, it's a
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: TV show. The reason that the industrial complex of American Sport.
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: North American Sport is as big as it is is
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: because of television.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: And you're putting on a show that if you put
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: the pilot.
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: On, no one would watch the other episodes.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: Like, you're gonna have up to seven episodes of this
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: mini series, minimum four episodes, and most will not.
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: Want to watch more than one. And that's that's what
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: you've got.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: And I will laugh when the NBA Finals gets beat
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: in the ratings by the Thousand Pounds Sisters Show or
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: the rerun of Doctor Pimple Popper.
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: This is z you know that show, which is a
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: fine show.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: It's just just great, you know, pushing parody over pedigree
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: and all that stuff. Yeah, it's all about the parody.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: Everyone loves parody until you actually get parody, and then
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: you don't like to taste of parody. But you're not
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: supposed to say that because you say, oh, we don't like,
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: we like it, but you don't really like and all
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: that stuff. And now it'll be great. We've got listeners
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: in Oklahoma City. We're on in Indianapolis, and so for them, congratulations.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: Then you're a bartender in Oklahoma City, man, that's great.
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: You'll get extra tips. People will be buying a lot
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: of booze.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: It'll be great if you're a farmer in Indianapolis, outstanding
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: for the rest of us, you know, the struggle is real.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: Well again, I have a talk show to do, so
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: it's not like this is going to vanish into thinner.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: I just proved I can do a monologue about anything,
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: as I did a hockey monologue and actually watched the
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: Florida Panthers and the Edmonton Oilers which went to overtime.
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: No last ward.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: Here we go to the broadcast world, or as we
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: like to call it, the yaka.
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: The Act, the Yakady Act.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: That is where a headline which I did not initially see.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: The great thing about the power of the bully pulpit
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: is so many of you reach out to me. Many
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: of you be email, but some of you on social
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: media and you want me to see certain stories. And
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: you're like, well, I help you. This idiot will talk
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: about this story. I think it's a good story, and
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: this one absolutely I had several of you send me
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: this story, and I totally agree.
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: It's a great story. It's something we've talked about in
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: previous episodes of the show. What is this story. I'll
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: get to the story.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: So NBA broadcaster Doris Burke, the much maligned on these airwaves.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: Doris Burke, Okay, she is supposedly on the hot seat
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: as in dun skis at ESPN as the lead NBA commentator.
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: Do you fancy a thought on this one? All right?
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: You fancy a thought on this one?
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: So I have what, for many Wolkesters will be an
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: unpopular opinion. We are going to say the quiet part
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: out loud. We are going to do it. We're not mainstream,
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: We're not We're on overnight. We can do this.
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: We can do it.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: Those daytime people have to be politically correct and all
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: that stuff. We don't have to do it, all right,
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: we don't have to. So nobody wants to say this.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: Nobody at ESPN wants to say this. There are sports
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: media people don't want to say it. They don't have
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: the balls to say it. If Doris Burke is your
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: number one NBA commentator, you've done something terribly wrong.
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: You have there. I said it. I don't like it, tough.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: Listen, I get that the Wolkester's over at ESPN. They
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: fell in love with the headline.
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: You look at us. We're progressive.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: You know, female analysts call in the finals. Okay, now
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: what now? You actually have to do the work. And
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: she stinks right, And I have not listened to her
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: recent work, but I heard enough of it, you know,
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: running the x's and o's, trying to do the old
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: workshop that. Hey, I know my basketball and I'm going
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: to workshop this, that and the other. Not entertaining, not entertaining.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: Knowing the game does not make a great broadcast. Being
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: a great broadcaster knowing the game two different things.
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: I want entertainment, I want energy. I want juice. Give
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: me the juice. Need the juice, I need it.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: Give me something. And I've said for years when she
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: is working, it's tap tap on the mute, mute, tap
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: tap mute, mute, tap tap mute, mute. That's what I
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: do to think that Doris is not on the we
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: goofed On, Mark Jackson too, and Jeff Van Gundy, but
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: side by side.
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: They are.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: It's like Marv Albert and Mike Furtello calling a game
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: when Van Gundy and Jackson are there compared to when
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: Doris Burk's there.
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: You know, Mama, there goes that.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: Man. I'll take that nine days a week, nine days
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: a week, and that booth ran circles around what they had.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: They put that podcast guy JJ Reddick in there briefly.
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: I mean, they don't even know what they're doing. They're trying.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: They're not even trying, right, and so now who knows
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: who's next. Man, be careful. Doc Rivers will probably be
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: fired in Milwaukee. They'll put Doc back on there. That'll
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: be great, oh man, So be careful what you ask for.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: I still amaze. I believe the conspiracy that the NBA
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: forced ESPN to get rid of Jeff Van Gundy and
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: Mark Jackson because of criticism directed at the officials and
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: just the general lack of sense of humor when it
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: comes to the commentary Jeff Van Gundy had. You don't
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: leave the top network television gig to become an assistant
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: coach with the Boston Celtics, which is what Jeff Van
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: Gundy did.
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: You don't make that move.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: Maybe you leave to become a head coach, but you
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: don't leave to become an assistant coach. And he got
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: whacked and Mark Jackson also Mark Jackson.
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: For reasons that we can get into, whether you want to.
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: I mean listen.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: People say he's too religious, he's got some skeletons. The
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: whole thing is he bumbles along and whatever he did,
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: he's talking.
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: No one will hire him to be a head coach.
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: No one will hire Mark Jackson to be a coach.
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: So why would he leave? They kicked him out.
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• 33:13
  Speaker 1: Here we go, Here we all, Here we go.
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: It's one big Ben gets grilled.
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: All right, what are we have here? Cool?
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: The Pacers are the biggest NBA Finals underdog in seven years.
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: They're at plus five hundred. How many people think the
• 33:32
  Speaker 4: series will be a sweeper? A gentleman sweep for the
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: thunder Ben is an OKC injury. The only hope that
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: Indiana has.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: No Shay jogis Alexander could go out there and just
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: poop the bed, right, just suck at a time you
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: cannot suck, and they can miss a bunch of Indiana
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: is an exciting team. They're a good offensive team. There's
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: a lot of randomness on a given night. You lose
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: one game, then it's snowballs and there's a fluke in
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: another game and then all of a sudden, you're like, well.
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: Wait a minute, that's not supposed to happen.
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: I'm not buying that this is going to be a
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: domination situation.
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: I don't believe the hype. An injury obviously changes everything.
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: But Indiana they're the inter lopers here, but so's Oklahoma City.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: They're also they're uninvited guest. Nobody wants to see them
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: in the finals, So no next.
• 34:24
  Speaker 4: Ravens offensive coordinator Todd Monkin told reporters on Tuesday that
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: they need to get Zay Flowers the ball war this
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: season and have they been under utilizing Flowers.
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: They're not going to get in the ball. Lamar Jackson
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: loves his tight ends. They're a running team, and so
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: it's all June talk. They're not going to get Flowers
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: to the ball.
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: More next now, the Rams offensive coordinator said that DeVante
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: Adams isn't showing his age at thirty two.
• 34:45
  Speaker 5: Many people have been.
• 34:46
  Speaker 4: Expecting deathcoming season for Adams to be like last season
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: for Derrick Henry.
• 34:50
  Speaker 5: But I think Adams is found the fountain of youth
• 34:52
  Speaker 5: in la.
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: I don't it's June. He's wearing a visor in shorts.
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: You don't show your age when you're wearing shorts and Advisor.
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: Hey, he's so stupid. I'll believe it when he does
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: it in the season. How do we know he pass there?
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: It is.
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: That's a win. There you go, devoid of style points.
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: But a win is a win, is a win, is
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: a win I want.
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  Speaker 3: I know it's an amazing concept. Let's get to the
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• 35:53
  Speaker 4: King, Rory would like to know would you rather go
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: skinny dipping or streaking?
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: Well, obviously skinny dipping because the water will cover you know,
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: a lot there, so that would be the move.
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: I mean, let's go streaking. I that's good in.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: A Will Ferrell movie. That's that's solid. But go the
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: skinny dipping thing. Why not lorraina.
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: Oh, this is hard because you know, I'm not a
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: big fan.
• 36:19
  Speaker 5: Of the water.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: No, and it's waters cold, and don't you always talk
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: about how you love the summer and the beginning.
• 36:27
  Speaker 5: I love the bikinis, but I don't get in the water.
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: So you're like being near water, babe.
• 36:33
  Speaker 5: Yes, on the sand.
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: Just like you just want people to look at you
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: on the beach.
• 36:37
  Speaker 5: But probably might just streak, yeah, but I probably wouldn't
• 36:41
  Speaker 5: run swift.
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: Walk like a slow Okay, cool.
• 36:47
  Speaker 5: I think I gotta go with the skinny dipping.
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, because it's usually people that skinny dip. There's not
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: a lot of people around when they're doing it.
• 36:57
  Speaker 5: You meant like warm water though, right.
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: Well, well if you're underwater, I use it, you know. Yeah,
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: maybe a towel when you get out, you know.
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: And like I don't like, I don't like running, and
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: like things just move more when you're running.
• 37:09
  Speaker 5: And that's.
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: Wasn't there somebody that ran on the on the dodge
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: at the Dodger game. There was not a streaker, but
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: do we still have streakers? There used to be streakers
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: that would run on the No.
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: There was a woman where I was a kid very
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: famous named more Danda, the Kissing Bandit.
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: And yeah he's like probably eighty. Now, all right, what's next?
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: What do we have here?
• 37:32
  Speaker 5: Uh? Alf Alien, I've heard him.
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: Hi Alf wants to know traditional birthday cake or ice
• 37:38
  Speaker 4: cream cake.
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: I've had both.
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: As I have preached from the bully pulpit for many,
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: many years, the most important thing about the cake is
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: the foster. I'm fine with ice cream cake, although there's
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: the waiting process.
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: I don't like waiting for it. You have to leave
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: it out. You it too soon, it's not right. But
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: if you if you wait too long, it sucks. There's
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: that sweet spot with ice.
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: Cream cake where it's just amazing, and if you don't
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: get it right, you've ruined the entire experience.
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: So I guess on that respect, I'll.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: Go with the cake, the regular cake with.
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: The frosting in the middle.
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: I'd like two layers of frosting in addition to the
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: outside frosting.
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: Lorrain, I'm an ice.
• 38:17
  Speaker 5: Cream cake type of girl. Sometimes regular cake it gets
• 38:21
  Speaker 5: me a stomach ache. I'll get nauseous.
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: It makes no sense because there's more content in the
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: ice cream cake.
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: You have ice cream, you have cake, you have the frosting.
• 38:31
  Speaker 4: And it doesn't make sense right, No, yeah, I think that's.
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: Maybe right ahead, Yeah, it might be or your stomach.
• 38:38
  Speaker 5: All right, I gotta go with regular cake.
• 38:42
  Speaker 4: I just thought I like a moist cake, and ice
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: cream cake is never moist.
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: There are some people that are annoyed by the word moist.
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: They don't like that word. They think that's a troubling word.
• 38:52
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I understand.
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: I don't care. What is next here? It's asked, Ben,
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: your questions are answers.
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: Fird dog says, can you whistle? Please demonstrate?
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: So I pointed out, I can whistle, but I can
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: only whistle blowing air in, not out.
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: And my thought that was only me yet Wow, yeah,
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: thank you. But the problems you're limited because you can
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: only take so much air in and then that's it.
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: Alf lorena. Yes, I demonstration. Okay. That was.
• 39:32
  Speaker 5: The first one was to be blowing in, the second
• 39:35
  Speaker 5: one was to be blown out, so I can go in.
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: The back out one that doesn't. Yeah, I can't even
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: get any sound when.
• 39:48
  Speaker 5: It's also called issues when I played the flute.
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: So I can understand it, all right, Uh.
• 39:55
  Speaker 5: Cool, I can normal whistle.
• 40:00
  Speaker 4: Show off, but I can't do that like fancy like
• 40:03
  Speaker 4: finger whistle that like, oh yeah, it seemed to be
• 40:06
  Speaker 4: able to do when.
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: You call a dog, Yeah, that's a boss move. Man.
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: My grandfather, he one of my gird He knew. He
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: was like the man's man when it came to whistling. Yeah,
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: he was the boss dud. He knew. He knew every way.
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: He was a multi whistle player because he could.
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: He could whistle with his fingers, he could whistle blowing in,
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: he could whistle blowing out.
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: He was the king of all whistling.
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: I had like my friend growing up and one of
• 40:31
  Speaker 4: my best friends, his dad could do a super loud
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: whistle with like his the two fingers in his mouth
• 40:36
  Speaker 4: and that was like anywhere, like you could hear it
• 40:38
  Speaker 4: from like you know, a mile away, and then the
• 40:41
  Speaker 4: kids would come like come running.
• 40:42
  Speaker 5: It was like.
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: Awesome. Yeah remember that song, the whistle song, which was
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: a double in time.
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: While yeah, yeh might have met something else.
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: All right, what's next year? And ask Ben your questions
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: are answers.
• 40:58
  Speaker 5: There's another question from King Ry.
• 41:00
  Speaker 4: He wants to know, did your parents ever hang a
• 41:02
  Speaker 4: report card or a test of yours on the refrigerator.
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: Well, obviously not one that was good.
• 41:08
  Speaker 5: You know it.
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: You gotta do better, Loreina.
• 41:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I feel like my mom would do that, especially
• 41:16
  Speaker 4: like colors and stuff.
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, cool.
• 41:19
  Speaker 5: My mom was the same. She would put up the
• 41:21
  Speaker 5: bad progress support. It's like, look, how terrible you are.
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: Do better?
• 41:27
  Speaker 4: The family Dame Donkey sausage real quick, favorite flavor of
• 41:31
  Speaker 4: potato chips.
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: Oh, I mean you can't Salt and pepper's Basicly, I
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: mean you can't go wrong with potatoes.
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: Loreina, Oh, that's so.
• 41:40
  Speaker 5: Also, Halo Paolo Peno, sour cream and onion.
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: Those are good. They're all good.
• 41:46
  Speaker 4: Cattle.
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: How do you You can't have a potato chip? Potato
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: chip is wonderful. So delivery vehicle